(Told to Christine Barker at the VE Day Commemoration in Beverley 2005) As a young man I served, was wounded and was a prisoner of war on Crete. If it hadn’t been for the Battle of Crete Germany would ...

Stories categorised in 'Crete'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Of course our Gunnery Officer reckoned that the four salvos fired with our turret we hit one of them, we ...

The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin ...

As a young boy growing up in the 1960's I was always aware that my father had taken part in WW2 - the REME tunic and the green/blue forage cap (with a red star on the front) gave that away. Over the ...

William Firth Little was born at 75 Ramsden Street in Barrow-in-Furness on October 22nd, 1912, two years before the onset of the Great War. William — or Bill - was the sixth in a family of seven ...

An American scientist who went missing more than a week ago has been found dead inside a World War Two bunker on the Greek Island of Crete. Police say Suzanne Eaton, 59, died of suffocation and her ...

WW2 game Post Scriptum has a brand new map set in one of the lesser-known battlefields of the war: the island of Crete, which was the site of a heated showdown between Allied and Axis forces in May ...

A Greek man is being questioned by police over the killing of an "outstanding and inspiring" US scientist on the island of Crete. The 27-year-old man was one of 10 people who authorities interviewed ...